🇮🇹 David Fumanelli

David Fumanelli is a professional endurance and sportscar driver holding FIA Gold status in that discipline, with a Racer Rating of 4,082 placing him in the professional band; this rating reflects a driver who operates at the sharp end of semi-professional fields or in supporting roles within stronger grids, but does not indicate standing as a frontrunner at the top level. His career spans fourteen seasons from 2012 to the present, though his racing schedule has been sparse; he holds 36 career starts across four series and has recorded a single podium finish, which came during his early years in the GP3 Series with Trident in 2012 or 2013.[1]

Fumanelli has spent the bulk of his active career in endurance racing, with ten starts in GT World Challenge Europe across seven seasons from 2019 onwards, all for Kessel Racing, and a more recent entry into the IMSA WeatherTech series in 2025 representing Inception Racing. In sportscar company, he has raced repeatedly alongside established Gold and Silver graded professionals; his most frequent rival has been Patric Niederhauser, a Platinum-graded driver, against whom Fumanelli holds a head-to-head record of 4 finishes ahead and 23 behind across 27 shared races. He has also shared grids with several drivers of far stronger calibre, most notably finishing ahead of Maro Engel, a former GT World Challenge Europe champion, on three occasions. His average finishing position across all starts stands at P18, reflecting consistent mid-field performance. His most recent activity places him in the 2026 IMSA season, where he is racing as a professional in a top-tier American endurance series.[2]